If you can get the tech side of it down, it'd be awesome for you to record an episode of Radio Free Burrito before a Live Studio Audience (tm) at ECCC. Play a few cool songs, have some ad bumps etc. in-between what you're reading, etc. Best of all, the people (like me) who won't be able to be there can listen to it later.

I've been working on Big Bang Theory for the last week. We tape tonight, and tomorrow I immediately start work on an audiobook*. The upshot of this is that I won't have a lot of time to build a setlist for my Awesome Hour at Emerald City Comicon this weekend. So this is where you come in. I need...

Project Kindle Store Get Books In has begun: I started with Hunter because it was already in .mobi format, and it's my most recent thing (it's still in pay-what-you-want-even-nothing format, incidentally.) Assuming the world doesn't implode around me, I'll get Sunken Treasure in the Kindle stor...

I agree that video games are an art form and should be considered as such for purposes of deciding what's appropriate or not, and free speech covers the rest, so Rockstar can do what they like. But that in no way mediates the simple truth that the main interaction with women in these games are as "ho's" and that beating them to get your money back has always been an acceptable part of the series. In any great work of art I would still find that objectionable if it was put out there without any commentary on how terrible it is.
Slightly o.t., though related - have you seen this? http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9360.html wow. Just...wow. Reading SF and playing video games might not fry your brains, but listening to some of the people who create them might. And Niven! Wtf?

With GTA IV coming out tomorrow, the usual gang of idiots are up in arms about how this game will lead to the end of civilization as we know it, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, etc. As I said in my PAX keynote, this sort of moralistic chest-thumping makes me a little stabby: Whenev...